“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.” GivingAmericaUsedNationsSocialPleasureRolesTakenGiving UpExpectationsIntentionInvestmentPrivilegeProfitRefuseStabilityVietnamImmenseHonorableColonyColombiaHelicoptersPeruGuerrillas Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.” IndividualSocialGroupsIntentionPrivilegePortionsOrganizePretension Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.” FormSocialCriticismIntentionArtisticServingVehicleEpigramsDespicablePunAbbreviations Author:Karl Kraus
“A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.” TryingLittlesDoeSelfProblemHandsSpiritualPoliticalSpiritualitySocialConsciousnessAwarenessSelf AwarenessIntentionProfoundSolveActivismPsychologicalRighteousSuicidalHaltSelf AbsorbedJuggernautSocial ConsciousnessProfound Spiritual Author:Andrew Harvey
“The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.” MenUniverseSocialNaturalGoneExpectationsIntentionUnityCosmicFadedSocial ScienceNatural Science Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind